That's really not that hard to do. If it were that hard to do, then you wouldn't see Amazon collecting taxes in any state correctly because they wouldn't have any way of keeping track of how much to collect in which locality. A multibillion dollar business like Amazon ought to have no trouble getting it correct. And smaller businesses would just buy the database information needed the same way that they purchase payment processing services.
At the end of the day, the only reason that this persists is so that companies like Amazon can make use of an illegal loophole to undercut brick and mortar stores.
That's a bullshit line of reasoning. They could do that in the same way that they could tax certain types of products which are only produced in other states, but they don't do it anyways.
Yes, but it's a useless way of measuring the risk as you're typically not comparing it to staying home, you're comparing it to other means of reaching your destination. Trains, cars, ships none of which have such concentrated risk at one point in the average journey.
Yes, and you have been able to hit win + D for years, but that doesn't really solve the problem as you then have an additional several keys to press after you've done that to restore the windows.
The desktop is for work, not launching applications. At least not with the style of WM that MS has been using for years, if they had an effective launcher in the root window it would be less of an issue.
I'm pretty sure that it's only open for deletions and posting [citation needed] at this point. By this time next year they should have the entire Wikipedia deleted.
It's not as bad as the laws in various parts of Europe that send people to prison for various speech crimes. Germany has it's holocaust denial penalty, and IIRC the UK just sent somebody to prison for trolling.
If those things are permissable under the EU's charter, then I'm not sure I see how this would be any more egregious of a violation.
This is definitely an issue, but their justice system is a joke and their politicians have immunity from prosecution IIRC. As long as those facts remain facts there is little hope of Italy joining the modern world. I mean hell, they still try people in absentia and expect to extradite the convicted afterwards.
You shouldn't be using docx, it's not a legitimate standard and it's definitely not interoperable the way that ODT files are.
Ultimately, it's ISO's fault for forgetting that it's a standards organization and that competing standards are really not as useful as ones that are compatible across software programs. Well, that and refusing to acknowledge and properly deal with the voting irregularities involved with OOXML being accepted as a standard.
It only seems that way if you're used to using Office. I'll use Office for a short period of time now and again and the organization is pretty ridiculous. It's not unusual for me to spend 20 minutes or more figuring out how to get it to stop autocorrecting things. I forget where that particular thing is located, but last time I checked it was absolutely buried.
As for TOC, you can do that in Libreoffice, same goes for paragraph styles. I'm not sure about the other bits though.
As for buying an old copy of 2003, good luck with that. It's not going to be exporting or importing files from elsewhere without a 3rd party utility or greatly restricting the use of newer features. I've tried interoperating with old versions in the past, and it's pretty much always been primitive. Stick to the basics and it should be fine, but if there's anything new you might well end up with squares or weird formatting.
Of course they can, there are plenty of ways of being compliant with the privacy regulations without having to be a huge organisation. The reason why we need actual enforcement and possible jail time is that without a pretty freaking huge stick, these companies aren't going to comply.
My information has been lost by at least a half dozen different companies in the last decades, nearly all of whom are required to take some pretty significant PII in order to do business with me. One of whom was a former employer.
These cases aren't typically a matter of an employee getting lazy, they're cases of companies with incomplete or incompetent procedures in place to ensure that PII is only available to those that really need it and in quantities just sufficient to complete the task before locking it up again.
Not to mention at least one of them had the information stored on a server with access to the internet.
Not really, it's ultimately the fault of the Federal Government for not requiring that Amazon collect. Without Amazon collecting it's questionable if state auditors would even have the ability to audit payments for those purchases. The reason that Amazon hasn't been collecting and submitting that sales tax is that it doesn't have a presence in the state.
Which ultimately leads to a bit of a problem, the state is going to have a hard time knowing whom to audit if Amazon can't be compelled to submit documentation due to a lack of jurisdiction.
I think you see where this is going, it is the law, but the situation is such that you're increasing your likelihood of being audited if you submit the taxes than if you don't as the state has previously had no way of knowing about the taxes not being paid.
There's that, but there's also dual GPUs which have been around for a while. I think Apple has offered dual GPU laptops for years now, where the big one would only get tapped for GPU intensive use, saving battery power.
A desktop isn't as sensitive to power use as a laptop is, but you could still conceivably cut down on the electrical bill and cooling costs.
Yes, but the start menu is there because you don't always have room for everything on the bar. And often times you don't want to minimize all your other programs just to get to the desktop icons, which themselves are likely to be a mess.
Doubtful, the start menu is an easier way of locating programs than anything else that MS has provided. The only reason I can think of for people not using it is that they already have the 3 programs they use pinned to the task bar.
Probably because it's a mess. Having to track receipts all year just so that you know how much to pay.
But, at least there's a line on the income tax return, around here we're supposed to keep track of all those purchases then figure out where to get the forms from and where to send the checks. Needless to say that nobody pays the sales tax on online purchases, but technically we're supposed to.
At the end of the day, Amazon is just being a hypocritical baby gladly taking advantage of a broken system.
I doubt they will, but there have been recent fines handed out for HIPAA violations, so hopefully.
The only way that businesses will take this sort of thing seriously is if there are real fines and preferably prison time for the executives in charge of this mess.
I suppose, but who's going to steal tapes without knowing what's on them? Without more information it's hard to say, but it's a lot less likely that a smash and grab is going to be triggered by seeing tapes, unless the thief has some idea what's on them.
Laptops OTOH, I totally see how those would be stolen by somebody not knowing what's on them.
It's still an extremely remote possibility. I don't know what the accident rates are for airlines outside the US, but in the US they had a fatality approximately every 5 billion miles travelled. And that includes 9/11 and several other crashes in which there were no survivors. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26743609/#.TotgeEDSiaQ
In other words, it's marginally more likely that you'll pull through during one of the less severe crashes, but it's unlikely that you're going to get anything out of the training.
No, it's not fair. It's probably not fair to expect them to cover damage by the software, but software is hardly the only way that a handset can get damaged. Allowing them to also not cover hardware problems due to defect is definitely not something that's fair.
Also, apart from bricking a device by having to work around their means of preventing one from installing a custom firmware, there isn't anything that's any more risky than installing an early version of Linux on a computer.
Personally, I'm not so sure that they shouldn't be held accountable for requiring one to go to great lengths to install a hacked bootloader. They were the ones that installed one that wasn't easily replaced in the first place.
Hmm, that's a good point. When I think about it, ultimately this isn't really that much different than installing a different OS on a computer. Doing that doesn't typically require one to void ones warranty.
You mean the idiot that called you out for being full of it. Had you bothered to read the post I linked to it was clear that it wasn't intended for people to be using their 3G connection to be surfing the web.
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That's really not that hard to do. If it were that hard to do, then you wouldn't see Amazon collecting taxes in any state correctly because they wouldn't have any way of keeping track of how much to collect in which locality. A multibillion dollar business like Amazon ought to have no trouble getting it correct. And smaller businesses would just buy the database information needed the same way that they purchase payment processing services.
At the end of the day, the only reason that this persists is so that companies like Amazon can make use of an illegal loophole to undercut brick and mortar stores.
That's a bullshit line of reasoning. They could do that in the same way that they could tax certain types of products which are only produced in other states, but they don't do it anyways.
That would be a train, not a car, and I don't believe that the TGV operates under battery power either.
Yes, but it's a useless way of measuring the risk as you're typically not comparing it to staying home, you're comparing it to other means of reaching your destination. Trains, cars, ships none of which have such concentrated risk at one point in the average journey.
Yes, and you have been able to hit win + D for years, but that doesn't really solve the problem as you then have an additional several keys to press after you've done that to restore the windows.
The desktop is for work, not launching applications. At least not with the style of WM that MS has been using for years, if they had an effective launcher in the root window it would be less of an issue.
I'm pretty sure that it's only open for deletions and posting [citation needed] at this point. By this time next year they should have the entire Wikipedia deleted.
It's not as bad as the laws in various parts of Europe that send people to prison for various speech crimes. Germany has it's holocaust denial penalty, and IIRC the UK just sent somebody to prison for trolling.
If those things are permissable under the EU's charter, then I'm not sure I see how this would be any more egregious of a violation.
This is definitely an issue, but their justice system is a joke and their politicians have immunity from prosecution IIRC. As long as those facts remain facts there is little hope of Italy joining the modern world. I mean hell, they still try people in absentia and expect to extradite the convicted afterwards.
It's Italy, so there's a very good chance that Berlusconi's media empire will have some sort of immunity or loophole available to it.
You shouldn't be using docx, it's not a legitimate standard and it's definitely not interoperable the way that ODT files are.
Ultimately, it's ISO's fault for forgetting that it's a standards organization and that competing standards are really not as useful as ones that are compatible across software programs. Well, that and refusing to acknowledge and properly deal with the voting irregularities involved with OOXML being accepted as a standard.
It only seems that way if you're used to using Office. I'll use Office for a short period of time now and again and the organization is pretty ridiculous. It's not unusual for me to spend 20 minutes or more figuring out how to get it to stop autocorrecting things. I forget where that particular thing is located, but last time I checked it was absolutely buried.
As for TOC, you can do that in Libreoffice, same goes for paragraph styles. I'm not sure about the other bits though.
As for buying an old copy of 2003, good luck with that. It's not going to be exporting or importing files from elsewhere without a 3rd party utility or greatly restricting the use of newer features. I've tried interoperating with old versions in the past, and it's pretty much always been primitive. Stick to the basics and it should be fine, but if there's anything new you might well end up with squares or weird formatting.
Of course they can, there are plenty of ways of being compliant with the privacy regulations without having to be a huge organisation. The reason why we need actual enforcement and possible jail time is that without a pretty freaking huge stick, these companies aren't going to comply.
My information has been lost by at least a half dozen different companies in the last decades, nearly all of whom are required to take some pretty significant PII in order to do business with me. One of whom was a former employer.
These cases aren't typically a matter of an employee getting lazy, they're cases of companies with incomplete or incompetent procedures in place to ensure that PII is only available to those that really need it and in quantities just sufficient to complete the task before locking it up again.
Not to mention at least one of them had the information stored on a server with access to the internet.
Not really, it's ultimately the fault of the Federal Government for not requiring that Amazon collect. Without Amazon collecting it's questionable if state auditors would even have the ability to audit payments for those purchases. The reason that Amazon hasn't been collecting and submitting that sales tax is that it doesn't have a presence in the state.
Which ultimately leads to a bit of a problem, the state is going to have a hard time knowing whom to audit if Amazon can't be compelled to submit documentation due to a lack of jurisdiction.
I think you see where this is going, it is the law, but the situation is such that you're increasing your likelihood of being audited if you submit the taxes than if you don't as the state has previously had no way of knowing about the taxes not being paid.
There's that, but there's also dual GPUs which have been around for a while. I think Apple has offered dual GPU laptops for years now, where the big one would only get tapped for GPU intensive use, saving battery power.
A desktop isn't as sensitive to power use as a laptop is, but you could still conceivably cut down on the electrical bill and cooling costs.
Unity? That crap, have they managed to fix it or is it still unstable, unusable and completely superfluous on desktop machines?
Yes, but the start menu is there because you don't always have room for everything on the bar. And often times you don't want to minimize all your other programs just to get to the desktop icons, which themselves are likely to be a mess.
Doubtful, the start menu is an easier way of locating programs than anything else that MS has provided. The only reason I can think of for people not using it is that they already have the 3 programs they use pinned to the task bar.
Probably because it's a mess. Having to track receipts all year just so that you know how much to pay.
But, at least there's a line on the income tax return, around here we're supposed to keep track of all those purchases then figure out where to get the forms from and where to send the checks. Needless to say that nobody pays the sales tax on online purchases, but technically we're supposed to.
At the end of the day, Amazon is just being a hypocritical baby gladly taking advantage of a broken system.
I doubt they will, but there have been recent fines handed out for HIPAA violations, so hopefully.
The only way that businesses will take this sort of thing seriously is if there are real fines and preferably prison time for the executives in charge of this mess.
I suppose, but who's going to steal tapes without knowing what's on them? Without more information it's hard to say, but it's a lot less likely that a smash and grab is going to be triggered by seeing tapes, unless the thief has some idea what's on them.
Laptops OTOH, I totally see how those would be stolen by somebody not knowing what's on them.
It's still an extremely remote possibility. I don't know what the accident rates are for airlines outside the US, but in the US they had a fatality approximately every 5 billion miles travelled. And that includes 9/11 and several other crashes in which there were no survivors.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26743609/#.TotgeEDSiaQ
In other words, it's marginally more likely that you'll pull through during one of the less severe crashes, but it's unlikely that you're going to get anything out of the training.
Who read the title as Spock gives up on Khan?
No, it's not fair. It's probably not fair to expect them to cover damage by the software, but software is hardly the only way that a handset can get damaged. Allowing them to also not cover hardware problems due to defect is definitely not something that's fair.
Also, apart from bricking a device by having to work around their means of preventing one from installing a custom firmware, there isn't anything that's any more risky than installing an early version of Linux on a computer.
Personally, I'm not so sure that they shouldn't be held accountable for requiring one to go to great lengths to install a hacked bootloader. They were the ones that installed one that wasn't easily replaced in the first place.
Hmm, that's a good point. When I think about it, ultimately this isn't really that much different than installing a different OS on a computer. Doing that doesn't typically require one to void ones warranty.
You mean the idiot that called you out for being full of it. Had you bothered to read the post I linked to it was clear that it wasn't intended for people to be using their 3G connection to be surfing the web.